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Daniel Roelfs

Biomedical researcher with a particular interest in the intersection between neuroimaging and genetics in the domain of neurobiology and psychiatry.

Research Experience

Doctoral Research Fellow

Multimodal Imaging group at NORMENT

University of Oslo

present - 2019

  • PhD position in imaging and genetics in schizophrenia
  • Utilizing large imaging databases such as the UK Biobank and the TOP psychosis database from NORMENT.

Research Assistant

EEG Group at NORMENT

University of Oslo

2019 - 2018

  • Managing EEG data, training new EEG testers, performing EEG experiments, data preprocessing and analysis.

Research Assistant

Department of Medical Physics

Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital

2019 - 2018

  • Data collection and managing in an MRI study on sleep deprivation
  • Analysis of the fMRI data and the output from the camera

Erasmus Traineeship

EEG Group at NORMENT

University of Oslo

2018 - 2017

  • Investigating brain plsaticity through EEG paradigm
  • Planning and running EEG experiments on both healthy individual and patients

Research Intern

Brain Institute

University Medical Centre Utrecht, NL

2016 - 2015

  • Idenifying factors associated with risk outcome in children with CD and ODD

Undergraduate Research Intern

Emergis, Psychiatric Institute for Mental Health Care

Goes, NL

2015 - 2014

  • Identifying risk factors associated with physical restraint in acute psychiatric care

Undergraduate Research Intern

Erasmus Cancer Institute Rotterdam

Rotterdam, NL

2014

  • Status research into comorbidities associated with different cancer therapies




Education

The PhD program at the University of Oslo has a distinct research component and educational component. Both need to be fulfilled to qualify for the PhD defense.

PhD Candidate, Neuroimaging & genetics

University of Oslo

Oslo, Norway

present - 2019

  • Doctoral education at the Institute of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oslo
  • Courses relevant to neurobiology, advanced statistics, and other academic skills

MSc, Biomedicine

Lund University

Lund, Sweden

2018 - 2016

  • Master’s program in Biomedicine at the Faculty of Medicine
  • Focus on molecular biology and neuroscience

BSc, Pre-medical track

University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University

Middelburg, NL

2015 - 2012

  • Major in the pre-medical science track, minor in philosophy.
  • Liberal Arts & Science program
  • Honors College

Epidemiology (summer course)

University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University

Middelburg, NL

2014

  • Summer course in theory and methods behind epidemiology

French Language & Literature (summer course)

Université de Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne

Paris, France

2013

  • Summer course in French language and literature

Clinical Experience

Assistant nurse/phlebotomist

Gelre Hospital Apeldoorn

Apeldoorn, NL

2016

Awards

ECIP Oral Finalist

World Congress of Psychiatry Genetics

N/A

2021

Commissions

Committee Member

NORMENT Early Career Researchers Meeting

N/A

2021 - 2020

Committee Member

Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience

N/A

2021 - 2019

General Board Member

The Netherlands Red Cross Student Desk Zeeland

N/A

2015 - 2014




Selected Writings

I occasionally write blogposts that serve as tutorials or showcases for how I solve certain data science problems

Running an ICA on Questionnaires

danielroelfs.com

N/A

2020

How I make QQ Plots Using ggplot

danielroelfs.com

N/A

2020

How I Create Manhattan Plots Using ggplot

danielroelfs.com

N/A

2019

Introduction To Basic Statistics in R

For internal purposes

N/A

2019

  • Gentle introduction to performing statistical analysis and plotting in R
  • Intended for NORMENT employees and other medical researchers

Selected Publications

Phenotypically independent profiles relevant to mental health are genetically correlated

Translational Psychiatry

N/A

2021

  • First author
  • Co-authored with Dag Alnæs, Oleksandr Frei, Dennis van der Meer, Olav Smeland, Ole Andreassen, Lars Westlye, and supervised by Tobias Kaufmann

Genetic overlap between multivariate measures of human functional brain connectivity and psychiatric disorders

medRxiv

N/A

2021

  • First author
  • Co-authored with a.o. Oleksandr Frei, Dennis van der Meer, Ole Andreassen, Lars Westlye, and supervised by Tobias Kaufmann

Experience-dependent modulation of the visual evoked potential: Testing effect sizes, retention over time, and associations with age in 415 healthy individuals

NeuroImage

N/A

2020

  • Co-author
  • First author: Mathias Valstad

Sleep and sleep deprivation differentially alter white matter microstructure: A mixed model design utilising advanced diffusion modelling

NeuroImage

N/A

2020

  • Co-author
  • First author: Irene Voldsbekk